I think @Hoju has got me beat, but he's the only one so far! I joined late in 2002, almost 16 years ago. I was, uh, 15 I guess. (funny, I thought I was younger than that, but the math can't lie)

I don't really remember how I found the place. Back then I was a ravenous consumer of all Zelda things online. I was active at the forums for places like zeldalegends.net, Ganon's Tower, HTLOZ, Kasuto.net, The Grand Adventures, North Castle. Probably others. I often surfed through affiliate links to find new Zelda communities, and I'm almost certain that's how I found ZU. Probably from Ganon's Tower, but not positive.

I think my first post was to accuse Lars, the ZU webmaster and founder, of stealing an argument I had used to defend The Wind Waker's controversial art style from another post at another forum.

@lord-of-shadow you what? Your accused the Legendary Creator of ZU of stealing?!

Wow.

Respect.

Did he reply?

I wasn't a good communicator at the time! I'm not sure if my message got across. In any case, he didn't ban me, and I don't remember if he responded.

(there was also that time I was a super moderator here and he caught me bad-mouthing him at another forum and almost banned me, but didn't. He didn't even remove my powers. Man, Lars gave me way too many second chances)

I wanted to join an online community, ideally gaming as that's my biggest interest. I decided to look for a Zelda one as it's my favourite franchise. So I googled Zelda forum. ZU and Zelda Dungeon came up, and after having a look around both sites I decided ZU was the one I wanted to be part of.

I only joined recently – as in today, an hour or two ago – but I found the site years ago. Though I wasn't an active guest as I only came by the site in passing, looking up the odd theory and the like on Google.

I decided to join in the hopes of combatting my shyness and possibly making friends, which should be easier on a forum such as this as The Legend of Zelda is my favorite gaming franchise.

You'll be drowning in friends before you know it lol. This community has so many awesome people. You should stop by my newbie chat later if you want to get to know some of us better. We love meeting new people!

Fun fact: I was shy when I first came here too. I pretty much just lurked till I joined Nayru and made friends. Now look at me! I'm not shy at all anymore and never shut up! lol.

I was once a member of Nintendo's NSider Forums. There was a user there who went by Poe-Guy who ran a boss creation contest over there that I regularly participated in. Actually won it once. He was also a member here (I believe he went by Ignis) and ran the same competition. That kept me here for a while, but then I eventually just stopped checking in on online communities.

As for more recent times, I made it onto the music team for ZU's OoT dub and thought I should get back into things here. Haven't had much time to participate in the forums all that much, though. Work and stuff.

Hey, I do music stuff. Sometimes, I cover Zelda tunes, too.
Check out my music thread if you have some time!

I remember first coming here because a friend of mine told me he'd signed up. I joined not long after, but he told me that he forgot his account and never made another one. I wouldn't have normally stuck around but I ended up making countless friends here and it was a blast talking with some of you that were here when I first joined.

I did end up leaving due to just studies and university, but today I decided to log back in, because why not? Every so often I visit and get reminded of all my good times here.

I was suckered in reading about the stone tower temple theory, from ZeldaWiki. I haven't really been active in some 4 or 5 years now - ever since the site got completely refreshed especially - came back just now randomly to see what was going on!

I was suckered in reading about the stone tower temple theory, from ZeldaWiki. I haven't really been active in some 4 or 5 years now - ever since the site got completely refreshed especially - came back just now randomly to see what was going on!